Load Records
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| Type of Company | Record Label |
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| Founded | 1993 |
| Headquarters | Providence, Rhode Island |
| Key people | Ben McOsker |
| Website | http://loadrecords.com/ |
Load Records is an American noise/experimental independent record label based out of Providence, Rhode Island.
Load Records was started by Ben McOsker in order to put a 7-inch record out for the band Boss Fuel. The label quickly became the most prominent source for noise music coming out of Providence, Rhode Island - loosely functioning in the same way that Sub Pop served grunge out of Seattle in the early '90s. Some claim McOsker has released some of the most exciting noise/experimental music of the early '00s, including music from Lightning Bolt, Neon Hunk, Metalux, Noxagt, and Friends Forever. Others have attributed a cookie-cutter aesthetic to the label, mostly in terms of the masks/costumes worn by a number of the bands.
The music of Load Records is popularized and reviewed through national zines like Blastitude, Arthur, and Dead Angel.
[edit] Notable Load Records bands
- Arab On Radar
- Astoveboat
- Brainbombs
- Burmese
- Coughs
- Excepter
- Fat Day
- Forcefield
- Friends Forever
- Gerty Farish
- Giant Jesus
- Hawd Gankstuh Rappuh MC's
- the Hospitals
- thee Hydrogen Terrors
- Khanate
- Kites
- Kites/Prurient
- Landed
- Lightning Bolt
- Men's Recovery Project
- Metalux
- Mindflayer
- Mr. California and the State Police
- Mystery Brinkman
- Nautical Almanac
- Necronomitron
- Neon Hunk
- Noxagt
- the Ohsees (aka OCS)
- Olneyville Sound System
- Pink and Brown
- Pleasurehorse
- Prurient
- the Scissor Girls
- Sightings
- Six Finger Satellite
- Total Shutdown
- the USAISAMONSTER
- Ultralyd
- Vincebus Eruptum
- John Von Ryan
- Vaz
- the White Mice
- Wizardzz
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